"Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby."
- Rob Bignell
"By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty."
"...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot ..."
"Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul."
"There is always, always, always something to write about."
"Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could."
"Every book I've read appears in my writing."
"...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book."
"...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions..."
"Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery."